Cheers to all our great presenters at CTI’s Evening for Educators event Oct. 17 at Discovery Place Education Studio. Presenters included current and former CTI Fellows from CTI Seminars, and CTI Fellows, Seminar Leaders and UNCC graduate assistants who participated in our Summer Research Experience for Teachers.
Our guests — CMS teachers, CTI supporters and local community members — were very impressed with the excellent curriculum ideas provided, and got lots of great ideas to take back to their students and schools. Many thanks to these presenters for sharing their super engaging, innovative work!
CTI Fellows Curricula
- Justine Busto, English as a Second Language teacher, East Mecklenburg High School: Using Graphic Novels and Picture Books in the High School and Middle School Classroom
- Matthew Kelly, Spanish teacher, Independence High School: Una imagen vale mil palabras: Using Hispanic Art with Novice Learners of Spanish
- Jennifer Ladanyi, language arts teacher, Bailey Middle School: Graphic Novels: Reading Critically from Texts to Images
- Pam Shembo, fifth grade French immersion teacher, E.E. Waddell Academy: Words of African Wisdom through Leuk the Hare in a French Immersion Classroom
- Amy Thomas, math teacher, Reedy Creek Elementary School: Number Awareness and Place Value
- Janet Raybon, forensic science teacher, Myers Park High School: The Rest of the Story: A Study of Death, Decomposition and Metamorphosis
- Tyler Godensky, forensic science student, Myers Park High School: Decomposition and the Life Cycle of the Blow Fly
CTI Summer Research Experience for Teachers (SRET)
Silver Nanoparticles for Enhanced Efficiency in Solar Applications
- Wendy Potter, apparel and textile production teacher, Butler High School
- Kari Rhoades, biomedical science teacher, Mallard Creek High School
- Kathleen Dipple, graduate assistant in chemistry, UNC Charlotte
- Meesha Kaushal, graduate assistant in chemistry, UNC Charlotte
How You Can Use Fluorescence and Light to Demonstrate Chemistry Concepts in Your Classroom
- Phil Carver, science teacher, James Martin Middle School
- Margaret Kocherga, graduate assistant in chemistry, UNC Charlotte
- Dr. Tom Schmedake, associate professor of chemistry, UNC Charlotte
Examining the Effects of Freeze/Thaw Cycles on Porcine Skin Using Spectral Analysis
- Curtis Overton, technology & design teacher, West Mecklenburg High School
SRET Graduate Student Research
Studying the effects of Peripheral Alkyl Chains on Exciton Diffusion Parameters in Porphyrin-PCBM Thin Films for OPV Applications
- Meesha Kaushal, graduate assistant in chemistry, UNC Charlotte
Fabrication of Tunable Silver Nanorod Films for Solar Applications
- Kathleen Dipple, graduate assistant in chemistry, UNC Charlotte
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